Archive for May, 2007

Aranjuez

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

My brother is on vacations in Madrid, so we went to small trip to Aranjuez.

Palacio Real de Aranjuez supposed to be the spanish Versailles. But this attempt has failed. Not because of spanish king didn’t want to, but because of lack of money. Link to English wikipedia and Spanish wikipedia. The best thing about the palace are the gardens, and the fountains. The palace itself is little bit under reconstruction, and not many of its rooms are accessible to the public.

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There is really lot of beautiful fountains

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But only some of them have water, not like the previous one…

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Queen’s bed. You should know that she was nymphomaniac, so you can imagine…

So me, my brother, and my friend Martina, we took the cercanías train on saturday, and headed south. After one hour we got off, and could enjoy the place. There is not much to see except the palace, and the gardens, but we took it easy after a bit wilder Friday’s night…

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It was so hot, so some of us had to keep cooling heads…

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And to saturday belongs also Saturday’s lunch…

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And god of wine at the end…

The rest of the pictures is here

San Isidro Day

Friday, May 18th, 2007

San Isidro is patron of Madrid, and this tuesday (15.5.) we celebrated him here. Me, and some friends, we went to Parque de San Isidro to hang out. Some pictures are bellow, the rest HERE.

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Botellón

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Shoppiiiiiing

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Somebody always need to make new make-up… [-;

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In Metro

Cuenca

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Cuenca is small regional capital about two hours on the south-east of Madrid. This city is small, but really impressionable. I was planning this trip long time. Most of Spaniards would tell you that it’s too small to go there… Well, we had something to do whole afternoon, so I can’t complain that it’s small town… And I have to say I liked it more than for example Toledo. Cuenca has also been declared as a part of UNESCO world heritage.

Finally I went there last weekend with Caroline, Thorsten, and Carmen. We departed at 12 from Madrid. Bit late because me, and Caroline, we of course couldn’t wake up after Friday. Thorsten with Carmen were supposed to go one hour sooner, but they couldn’t fit to the bus, so that was a bad luck. (and good for us, so we could go together).

The most spectacular in Cuenca are hanging houses (casas congeladas). They are several, up to seven floor tall housing growing up directly from the rock. They are not that impressionante if you don’t think about them in the context of surrounding nature, and the rock, and that’s really great. These houses were built in the 14th century. Some of them were used as the summer residence for the royal family.

So photos as usually:

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Our crew – Thorsten, Carmen, and Caroline

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Town hall

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Cafe – Thorsten’s favourite thing to do [-;

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Did you know that they don’t have ants in France?

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There was lot of cats

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Cathedral

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Like Japanese photographers…

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Roof in some church

All the pictures are HERE on stromecek.